Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Some Models for Implicature' and 'The Union of Body and Soul'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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Grice said patterns of use are often semantically irrelevant, because it is a pragmatic matter [Grice, by Glock]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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Grice's maxim of quality says do not assert what you believe to be false [Grice, by Magidor]

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Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible [Grice, by Magidor]

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Grice's maxim of quantity says be sufficiently informative [Grice, by Magidor]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2594	A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche]